Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-28

1901 yoa near not one word. Une great SOCK
firm goes down, arl whole columns OF news
papers discuss their fraud, or their DIS
aster, and we are presented with their
features AMI their biography But where
one 81 IN famous firm silks five hundred I'M
known men sink with them. he great
steamer goes down ami all the little loats
ar swallowed In the same engulfment. Gam
bling is gambling, whether in stocks, or
brea istuifs, or dee or racc-track betting.
Exhilaration at the start, and raving brain
and a all uttered rvous System a III a sac
ridced property and destroyed soll at the
last. Young man, buy no lottery tickets,
purchase no prize packages, bet on no haso-
bull games or yacht racing, have no faith in
luck answer no mysterious circulars pro
pos ng great income for small investment;
s1oo away the buzzards that hover around
our hotels trying 30 eutrap stran gers. 60
out anil make an honest living. Have Col
on your side and be candidate for heaven.
Remember all the paths Of sin are banked
vita flowers at the start, and there are
plenty OF helpful hands to fetch the gay
charger to your door and hold the strrup
whI:e yoa mount But further on the horse
p,unges to the b. in slough tnextrcabe.
The best honey is not like that which Jona-
than took on the end OF the rod and brought
to his lip, but that which Col puts on the
lanqueting lble OF Men y, at whi n we are
ali invited to st l was reading Of u 10y
among the mountains of Switzerland ascend
ing dangerous paos with his father an the
guides, Ghe boy stopped on the edge of the
Cliff and said: There is flower mean to
get." 'Come away from here" said the
father, "you viii fail Of MOP sa d he, II
uu;t get that beautiful flower" and the
guides ru had toward him to pull him back.
when they heard him say: 81 almost
have it," as he fell 2,O0} feet. Birds CT
prey were seen few days after cirtling
through the air and lowering gradually 10
the place where ths corpse lay. Why SEX
flowers on tie edge Of precip,ce when you
may walk knee deep amid the full blooms of
the very Paradise Of Godt When man may
sit at a kings banquet, why will he go down
! the steps and contend for the gristls and
bones of hounds kepnel2
"Swe ter than honey and the houeycomb,"
says David, lis the truth Of Cod" With
honey out of the rock would | have satisfied
th:e,h says God to the re rreaut. Here is
honey gathered frors the blossoms Of trees OF
| life, and with a rod made out Of the wood OF
the cross dip it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesiol tbs of an am.
brosia and nectar the drinking of
which woull make man I've forever,
and one sip Of this honey from the Eternal
| Rock viii give you immortal life with Col.
Come of Of the malar.al levels OF sinful
! life. Come and live on the uplands OF grace
| where Inc vineyards sun themselves. Ou,
taste and see that the Lord is gracious. Be
happy now and happy forever. For those
who take a different course the honey will
turn to gall For many things l have ad-
mired Percy Shelley, the great English poet,
but deplore the fact that it was great
sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem
Queen Nab" has In 1t the mahgning OF the
deity The intdel poet was impions enough
to ask for Rowland Hii's Surrey chapel that
he might denounce the Christian religion
He was in great gee against Col and the
truth But he visited Italy, and one day on
the Mediterranean with two friends in / oat
which was twenty.four feet long, he was
! coming toward shore when an hours .sluau
struck the water. A gentleman standing on
shore through glass saw many boats tossed
! in this s1uall, but all outrode the terror ex.
cept one, that in which Shelley, the lnhdel
| poet and his two fren Is were sailing. That
never came ashore, but the bodies OF two of
the occupants were washed upon the BEACH,
one OF them the poet, A funeral pyre was
built on the sea shore by some classic friends
and the two bodies were consumed. Poor
Shel}ey He would have no God while he
lived and he probably had no God when he
diel, "The Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous, but the way Of the ungodly shall
parish" Beware Of the forbidden honeyl